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Bicyclist Injured in Haight Street Crash This Morning
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Photo: Michael Kohn A woman bicycling on Haight Street between Clayton and Belvedere was injured in a crash involving multiple delivery trucks between 9 and 10 a.m. today. Details are still unclear, but according to an eyewitness account, she was taken away in an ambulance, conscious but with apparent injuries to her legs. The eyewitness, […]
CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles
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The Congress for the New Urbanism will meet in Portland, Oregon, in early November for the annual Project for Transportation Reform, a summit to further define and clarify emerging urban transportation policies that embrace entire networks, rather than interdependent transportation segments, and that seek to balance modal transportation splits and reduce overall vehicular miles traveled […]
Oakland Airport Connector Clears One More Hurdle
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OAC image: BART Transit advocates, community groups, and faith-based environmental justice organizations made another plea to Oakland and regional policy makers to kill the half a billion dollar Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) with a resolution sponsored by Oakland City Council members Nancy Nadel and Rebecca Kaplan at their monthly meeting last night. Citing a significantly […]
Oakland Council Rolls Back Parking Changes Amid Cries From Merchants
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Grand Lake Theater owner Alan Michaan exhorts the public to "Stop the Parking Madness!" Photo: DigiAnt During another raucous staging of political parking theater at last night’s Oakland City Council meeting, where more than 90 speakers often shouted their opinions on the city’s parking policy, the council reversed its position from July, scaling back the […]
Bay Area Transit Chiefs Assume Leadership Roles at APTA
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MTA CEO Nat Ford. Photo: foggydave The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) announced its newly elected executive committee today at its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, and Bay Area transit bosses will be taking prominent roles that could influence the nation’s transit priorities. San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans) General Manager and CEO Michael J. […]
Newsom Parking Meter Story is Not a ‘False Controversy’
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Photo:Michael Ronquillo The kerfuffle continues to intensify over the draft study the MTA recently completed on extending parking meter hours in commercial districts around the city, a study which, as we first reported last Friday, the Mayor doesn’t want MTA Chief Nat Ford to broadcast too loudly. When Newsom was asked about our story […]
Advocates Question Public Benefit of Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore
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Photo: pbo31 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced bids for the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel earlier this week, claiming that the new $420 million tunnel on State Route 24 through the Oakland hills will reduce congestion for the 160,000 motorists who use it daily and that it will create 6,000 new jobs. "This project […]
California Applies for $4.7 Billion in High-Speed Rail Stimulus Funds
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Image: CAHSRA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that the state has applied for $4.7 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus money for the California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) to start the nation’s most ambitious high speed rail project. In a statement, the governor said, "Recovery Act funding for high-speed rail will […]
Mayor Newsom Still Opposed to Extending Parking Meter Hours
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Flickr photo: KayVee.INC Mayor Gavin Newsom has been quietly pressuring MTA Chief Nat Ford to delay or prevent proposals to extend parking meter hours on weeknights and Sundays, despite a looming mid-year MTA budget deficit and studies that show it’s good policy, Streetsblog has learned. A study on the parking management and revenue implications of […]
David Byrne Turns His Book Reading Into Bicycle Advocacy Primer
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Former Talking Heads frontman and current bicycling icon David Byrne used his celebrity and the publication of his new book, Bicycle Diaries, to instruct a capacity audience of more than 900 people at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on the many ways that the bicycle has become a more acceptable and mainstream form of locomotion. Rather […]
Driver Reaction to Market Street Diversions Surprisingly Upbeat
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SFPD officer directing personal vehicles to turn right off of Market Street at 8th Street. Photos: Matthew Roth Although there are still some kinks that need to be ironed out on Market Street to make the six-week trial diversion of personal automobiles more efficient, the sky did not fall and reaction to the changes was […]
Streetsblog Off Today, Cars Off Market Tomorrow
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At least for private cars during a trial closure. Photo: Bryan Goebel Following the lead of Streetsblog NYC, we’re off today in observance of Yom Kippur, though we remind you that your bike commute to work down Market Street tomorrow morning will be quite different than today, should you be riding. With the trial to […]